Cryptic crosswords
ACROSS
1. Demonstrate a bit that’s a chef d’oeuvre (9)
5. Get the boat moving by argument, it looks like (3)
7. A lack of want (4)
8. Was schooled to be dead cute, in a way (8)
10. In leaving animal born like this, somehow it’s not natural (8) 11. Be in clothing that’s showing signs of use (4)
13. Don’t work on hit (6)
15. False hair, by which one may be turned on (6)
18. A customer one may find along the shore (4)
19. It is for reducing the noise in creels possibly (8) 22. Electric bagatelle for which plain bet can be arranged (8) 23. Having founded Carthage, she did nothing more (4) 24. Regret being loyal, leader being lost(3)
25. Thirty days for the ninth, once the seventh (9)
DOWN
1. Footwear used, as land’s adapted to them (7)
2. Much water is available once a change has been effected (5) 3. Finish with the listener in order to make oneself liked (6) 4. Every single one will ache to put the last first (4) 5. Concerning a school outing one may fall back on (7)
6. A sort of bird one could draw around the East… (5)
9. … might be just the bird for Sir Francis! (5)
12. We set out the afters (5)
14. For example, Verne turned to get his own back (7)
16. Shelter to keep like resentment (7) 17. Replenish one quietly as a bit of a boost (6)
18. Skip like a goat seeing the bud in pickle (5)
20. It is uphill work for opening cricketer on the leg (5)
21. Girl who didn’t begin the form (4)
ACROSS
1. Hell inclines to be for swells (8) 4. Be upset with a couple of ducks being instrumental (4)
8. Tree starts expanding, late May (3)
9. Get hold of a round for voices (5) 10. Copy the contents of the paper (3)
11. Noise of cart, let run around (7) 12. Meg might take old boy out and get stuck in the mud (5) 13. Hardly any, but valuable to just two or three (8,3) 17. Fragrance, or a mixture Mother finishes off (5)
18. The amount of film a foe got out of it (7)
20. It is a newt that is abandoned, headless (3)
21. Long rope used to train horses to fencer’s attack (5)
22. Be in a position to make a false statement (3)
23. Sort of worm to make a recording of (4) 24. Incidentally, here is where one may find a milestone (2,3,3)
DOWN
1. Soak one with a dose of physic down the throat (6)
2. Weller takes a degree for dance (5)
3. It will put one off, having more than half the washingpowder (5)
5. Blame British Rail may have taken for the blackberry bush (7) 6. Vigorous activity turning green before end of January (6)
7. A trio to knock up the runs – 60 (10)
9. Game with string showing Puss in its earliest place (4-6) 14. Proof to be got from highest point in the house (7) 15. Aren’t quietly begun by a father or mother (6)
16. Sticks that may be forced in growing (6)
18. Have a liking for being so free of love entanglements (5) 19. Permit nothing to be put in a broken wall (5)